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    Purity

    Anat Zuria 2002 Israel Documentary color 65min Betacam
    Israeli filmmaker Anat Zuria examines the Tharat Hamishpaha (family purity), the ancient laws and rituals shaping women lives and sexuality within Jewish Orthodoxy. Giving new insight into a guarded religious community, Zuria presents her own experiences adhering to Orthodox practices, as well as those of her friends Natalie, Katie and Shira. At the heart of their stories is the "nidda"— a ten to twelve day period restricting women from touching or engaging in sexual intimacy with their husbands, which culminates with a trip to the cleansing baths. Each woman introduces this practice through very different perspectives — one sadly leaves her marriage in protest, one attempts to work within the tradition despite the emotional and physical stress it causes, while another proudly teaches the laws to her daughter. Beautifully incorporating lyrical and meditative images with interviews, "Purity" presents the hidden struggle of religious women to maintain their cultural traditions and individual needs within the framework of strict, masculine religious law.

    Director

    Anat Zuria

    Anat Zuria graduated from the Ramat Hasharon Arts College and the Ma'ale School of Communications, Israel. Artist, as well as writer for magazines dealing with arts and Judaism, and documentary editor. She teaches film directing at Ma'ale Film School.

    Anat Zuria

    1999 Klachi in the Holyland

    2002《月事禁忌，越是期待》 Purity

    Director/ Anat Zuria

    Producer/ Amit Breuer

    Production Company/ Amythos Films

    Cinematographer/ Nili Azlan, Nurith Aviv, Shiri Bar-On

    Editor/ Era Lapid

    Original Score/ Jonathan Bar Giora

    Print Source:

    Haya Nastovici (INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS&SCREENINGS)

    6 Shlomo Hamelech St., Tel Aviv-64377, Israel

    Tel: +972-55-918908

    Email: nasto@netvision.net.il

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